With all the media regurgitating the stale news that "real estate inventory is low", it's time everyone understands what it is like being a home buyer these days. It can suck! For example, yesterday a new listing popped up in Vienna Woods that seemed too good to be true. So, after they finished work, I met some clients at the house for a Continue Reading
Want to Know what Home Sellers Want from you?
The real estate market in Northern Virginia has been very competitive recently. And if you are a home buyer here, then you know it's actually Über-Competitive. It is easy to understand that anyone selling their home wants the highest price, but I thought I should share some strategic buyer tips that will help your offer be even more Continue Reading
Deciding to buy a lot
Anyone deciding to buy a lot to build a new home on really needs to consider some important factors which may seem daughting to a novice. If at the end of this article you decide this is the case, you may want to consider looking at some of the builder "spec" inventory that I see across Northern Virginia. Sorry folks, that "spec" inventory is going Continue Reading
Public Schools and Real Estate
If you have a child in Fairfax County Public Schools then you might have a different perspective than what people believe when reading Zillow school profiles. For example, the student population has surged in Fairfax County exceeding the projections given to the School Board just last year, and those temporary classroom trailers seem to have become Continue Reading
An Easy Real Estate Tip
If you are like most hopeful real estate buyers in Northern Virginia, you are probably noticing that there aren't many nice homes out there to buy right now. Not to bore you with more real estate stats, but from Vienna to Ashburn, it's slim pickins out there! You are not alone. I just read an article from Redfin's CEO on TechCrunch about how Continue Reading
Custom Home Building Permits Jump in Vienna
If you are living in Vienna Virginia, then you may have noticed the non-stop custom home construction boom that has been going on over the past few years. And, honestly, if you haven't noticed then you really need to get offline right now! 2012 proved to be another record setting year up 21% for new home building permits in the Town of Continue Reading
Where are the real estate photos?
Have you ever wondered why some online listings have fewer real estate photos? This seems like a problem circa 2004, but even yesterday I ran into this totally ridiculous problem on three properties with two different buyer clients. The first listing was new on the market. Total photos: 0, as in zero. Since my client is a commercial airline Continue Reading
Can You Compete in 2013?
Your wake up call may have come if you read a recent article in The Washington Post about a house in D.C. that had 168 offers on it. Okay, it was listed at a very nice price (it was a foreclosure, rare in D.C.) and had a textbook bidding-war that bumped up the price $360,951 over the asking price. Crazy! But you should know that multiple Continue Reading
Holidays at the County Courthouse
If you are buying or selling real estate, you might just want to take a close look at the calender when you are picking out your settlement date. First, cross out weekends. Second, cross out national holidays. Third, check your County Courthouse calender. Huh? The Courthouse Calender may screw up your plans The Courthouse calender is Continue Reading
Power for your Digital Natives
When I read about a Pew Research study conducted earlier this year that revealed that half of Americans now use Smartphones, their number seemed far too low since all of my real estate clients seem to use them non-stop. Smartphones are perfect to help people search for homes, read about the local schools or review "walk-scores", and that Continue Reading
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